Word: thunder
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...harebells nodded by English streams as toiling infantrymen sweated and wriggled through the final stages of their training. Across the pale green of awakening countryside, endless convoys lurched, Bren gun carriers clattered, jeeps buzzed and tanks clanked. Assault troops splashed wearily ashore on countless nameless stony beaches; the thunder of artillery practice on Salisbury Plain mounted toward unbearable climax...
...Indian Ocean, long quiescent, woke to the thunder of a powerful naval attack...
...December bodies up now. But they come up quicker in the springtime-men face down, women face up. If she's in the river maybe we'll know in May. If there's a thunderstorm we'll know before that. An odd thing, the way thunder will bring them...
...soldiers, whose buddies had died on the slope, watched. Then, at 9:28 a.m., from beyond the snow-capped peaks, came the first wave of lordly Fortresses. From the mountain peak came great orange bursts of flame, billowing smoke. The muffled crunch of explosions grew like a roll of thunder...
...thunder at Truk echoed from Tokyo. In a move without precedent, Japan's rulers summarily sacked the chiefs of the Army and Navy General Staffs, openly admitted the loss of two cruisers, three destroyers, 13 transports, 120 planes...